When you're standing in line at the grocery store with only 1 or 2 items in your hand, and the lady ahead of you has a cart filled with items, she will often smile and say, "Why don't you go on ahead of me," right? Next time that happens, do go ahead of her, set your 2 items on the conveyor belt, then turn and look over her shoulder and yell out this: "Mabel, gather up all the kids and all the carts and get over here! This lady says we can go first!!" Yes, I have done this.
Hand the cashier a $5 bill and ask if you can get two tens for a five. I've had couple of people actually give me the two tens before it sank in. Most start to get change before it hits them.
I was once good buddies with my neighbors - good enough to pull this one. I put a bottle in my pants such that I appeared to be a record stallion standing at attention. I then went over to my neighbor's house when he was gone but she was home, knocked on the door, and proceeded to have a conversation with her about something inconsequential. I don't remember what any more. But eventually she noticed the very large and long bulge in my pants. With greater and greater frequency her eyes would dart downward. I could see that she was getting more and more uncomfortable as we talked. About the time she was looking very perplexed I reached down and started rubbing the bottle, at which time she realized she'd been had. She started laughing so hard that she almost fell down. She said I really had her sweating!
A guy was giving me a hard time about how useless this AARP card in my wallet was. (They had sent it to me in the mail when I turned 60.). "What do you get with that? 5% off an overpriced hotel room?" So I was supposed to meet him one day for an exchange of office keys. I said "Let's meet at Braums" (ice cream parlor). I get there first and buy and pay for an ice cream soda, but I tell the girl not to make it until my buddy arrives and to pretend she never saw me before. Well, she played it like Katherine Hepburn. I "ordered" an ice cream soda with my buddy standing right next to me. I pull out my AARP card when she goes to ring it up, and ask if I can get maybe 5% off. I hear him laughing at the improbability, and she says, "Oh if you have THAT card, you get free ice cream anytime you want!" His eyes popped out as I went to our booth and proceeded to consume my "free anytime" and unlimited ice cream. I could hear his teeth grinding as I slurped happily away.
you do know it's against the law? It's called change raising, when I went through management training it was called a quick change scam..I don't even know if they train cashiers anymore to know how to thwart it...
In high school(1983-1985ish), VW Beetles were more common. We used to get 7 or 8 friends and pick up a VW Beetle and set it where it cannot be driven out between 2 objects or we would high center it on a curb. The car always belonged to someone we knew and we always moved it later for them.
No, as long as you don't take the money you're fine. If you did actually take it that might get dicey. NO, it was a joke! Really!!!
Rick Dees in the morning, tell us what time it is! Did anyone listen to that show? He was a morning DJ who liked to play practical phone pranks. One time he set a guy up who had taken his Ferrari in for a service. Dees called the owner posing as the mechanic and pretending that he didn't know the first thing about Ferraris, but he was figuring it out. You could hear body grinders and hammers in the background as Dees described all of the body work they were doing. "I just brought it in for a tune up!" screamed the owner. Dees had this guy in a total panic. One of the best gags I've ever heard. On another occasion he posed as the lead for a wrecking crew. He called the owner to report they had leveled the house. But before long Dees had the owner thinking they tore down the wrong house.
I pulled one on my date last night: I told her that there are times when I still struggle with an old love triangle that involves me and two other men. Slowly she raised her eyes and looked extremely concerned. So I allowed a pregnant pause to let her stew on the panic for a moment. Then the punch line: I am still tempted at times to get back together with Ben and Jerry.
Funny. In the middle of the night, me and a few buddies lifted a VW and placed it across the little cement stoop on a projects apartment. Just to block their door and surprise the occupants in the morning. Don't know what happened when they saw the car. We didn't know the VW owner or the occupants of the apartment. Another time, at about three in the morning, two friends and I carried my best friend's motorcycle a half block and hid it behind his grandmother's home. We all forgot about the prank, and my buddy didn't find his cycle for two weeks.
I didn't personally pull this one; a friend did, but it involves VW's again. This bigmouth VW owner in his frat was always bragging about the great gas mileage he got. So the frat brothers decided to start filling up his tank when he wasn't looking. The mileage "increased" to nearly 100 mpg, and so now he's really just bragging away. Unbearable. So then they start secretly siphoning out his gas till it dwindled to about 5 mpg and he finally quit bragging.
